August 2011
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Currently Lakeview is recycling 7 tons of cardboard, plastic, newspaper, office paper magazines, cereal boxes, food and tin cans, junk mail, brochures and catalogs in a Co-Mingle Recycling System. Michael Bernard, Housekeeping Manager, hopes to double the amount by next year. Prior to coming to work at Lakeview, Michael worked at Shawnee Mission Hospital where he earned the nickname “Recycle Michael”. He developed a program that went from recycling 0 to recycling 100 tons in 1 year. He received the Environmental Excellence Award for his program and Bridging the Gap recognized the program for outstanding efforts. We need your help to improve…Recycling is not only the right thing to do for our earth, but it helps with Lakeview’s expenses. By putting your milk cartons, cans and such in a recycle bin you will help us reduce our waste hauling expenses. We appreciate your continued efforts to assist us with this. n
Center of the Plate..................................... Page 5 Marketing In Motion................................. Page 5 Did Someone lose their Marbles ........... Page 6-7 New Physician Welcomed ......................Page 8 Anticipation is Over.................................. Page 8 Going Green/Volunteer Opportunities ... Page 10 In the Spotlight........................................ Page 11 Published by Sun Publications, Inc. 4370 W. 109th St. • Overland Park, KS 66211 913-381-1010 Fax: 913-381-9889 ©2011 Sun Publications, Inc. Art Director: Kelsey Wilkinson Advertising Account Executive: Carol Burrington
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You won’t want to miss the August Residents Meeting! The Lenexa Fire Department will host a very special and unique presentation. They will bring with them to Lakeview the Fire Safety Trailer. This unusual “trailer” has been designed for the education of Fire Safety, Severe Weather Safety as well as other hazards you might encounter in your home. The trailer is designed in three parts: the kitchen, living room and bedroom. The kitchen is fully equipped with the standard appliances to provide training for kitchen safety. The living room is equipped with sofa, TV (including DVD player), fireplace and portable heater. The bedroom has special features as well. From the Buy a Book for the Lakeview Village Library “control room” an instructor will create real life to honor a friend. Write a check for $20.00 simulations such as weather alerts, smoke, heat, made out to the Lakeview Village Foundation. etc. and educate visitors on the appropriate action. Write the name of the honoree and Lakeview This is an interactive program. The trailer will be Library in the lower left corner of the check and parked in the Heritage Parking lot for those who turn in the check at the Heritage Reception Desk. wish to visit it at the end of the meeting. n
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A look into some of Dining Services upcoming changes… Centerpointe Care Center diners will be seeing a change for the better. We plan to train all future staff members, diet aides and nurses alike, on how to best serve table-side in multiple courses. This new dining style will give diners more time to enjoy their courses and ensure quality temperatures for each course. Appetizers first, salads second, entrees then followed by desert. This change will increase each resident’s quality of dining. As we move into this new style you will see some new faces around, so give them a big friendly welcome! Eastside Terrace will also be seeing some new faces. This additional staffing will guarantee an on-site certified cook for all three meals of the day. The nursing staff can now focus their energy and time on patient care and Dining Services will take care of your dining needs. “Server Certification” program: Dining services is proud to announce that the server certification of all current and new staff at the Southridge location has been completed. The service staff at Heritage and Northpointe will begin their training this month. Our hosts and servers have received a great response from the residents thus far on this new restaurant-style service. n
Marketing in Motion Colette Panchot, Director of Sales and Marketing 913-744-2449 cpanchot@lakeviewvillage.org The Sales and Marketing Department is making steady progress toward our goals for 2011, and we can credit your many referrals. We enjoy working in partnership with you to help Lakeview Village grow. We are also gratified with your response to our Public Relations survey. This is a big help to us in gathering ideas for potential feature stories that may be of interest to the greater community. So far, we have received surveys relating to accomplishments in business, people who have known celebrities, or events in the past that coincide with today’s headlines. If you have a friend at Lakeview who may not have responded to the survey but you know has an interesting background, you may wish to write us on their behalf or encourage them to send in their survey. If you have not sent in your survey, we hope you will do so soon. As part of our ongoing community outreach campaign, Lakeview Village now has a banner at the Overland Park Farmer’s Market, and we are planning a book-related event with Barnes and Noble this fall. Please remember that you are always welcome to contact me or the other members of the Sales and Marketing team with your ideas on how to make Lakeview Village the best place to live, work and grow! n
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Did someone lose their marbles? …if so, Don might have them! By Lauren Nelson
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alling Don Dubois’ collecting of Roman cultures. marbles a hobby would be an underMarbles spun into America during the early statement—it’s a passion. Why does 1800’s. Akron, Ohio is the birthplace of masshe have over 10,000 marbles? Simply produced marbles. S.C Dyke was the first to massbecause it’s fun! Don has voyaged through Braproduce clay marbles in Akron during the early zil, Chile, China, France, the Philippines, Russia 1890’s. The first glass mass-produced marbles and many other were also made locations seekin Akron by ing the spherical James Harobjects. vey Leighton. Marbles Martin Fredhave been rollerick Chrising around the tenson—also world for thouof Akron— sands of years. made the first They have machine-made an extremely glass marbles old origin and on his patented represent one machine in of the earli1903. His comest games ever pany, The M.F. played. Greeks Christensen & and Romans Son Co., manuDon’s special edition Popeye corkscrews date the use of factured milmarbles over lions of toy and two thousand years ago in written literature. They industrial glass marbles until they ceased operawere crudely made and were formed of stone. His- tions in 1917. torians also have evidence that Egyptian children Don grew up playing with marbles as a little played with marbles, as some of these spheres boy, but his dedication to collecting them didn’t have been found in the ruins of that culture. The begin until his retirement in the late 80’s. He small spherical toys were named after the Latin asked his wife, Florine, what she thought about word for "expensive stone." The British Museum him collecting marbles and she replied, “As long contains marbles used by both the Egyptian and as you don’t dip into my kitchen fund,”—and
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of collecting is the people you meet. Don has met many major collectors from all lines of business and has traveled through the world just visiting them. One of Don’s favorite memories is during a visit to Connecticut; he challenged a well-known collector to a game of marbles consisting of 30 pieces each. Each marble was worth at least $1,000. It was a 60,000 dollar game. Wow! On March 6th, Don attended the 2011 “Marble Crazy” Marble Collectors Show at the Holiday Inn in Olathe. People from all over the United States gathered to display and Akro-made special collection sell their marbles. “All the collectors are friends, and everyone gets along—until you start Don never did. Before he knew it, she was colnegotiating prices,” Don joked. Room trading also lecting and trading marbles as well. It all began took place the two days before the show; this is when Don bought a box of marbles at an auction. where the interesting stuff transpires. All the maHe took the marbles to a friend who was already jor collectors arrive early in the week and conduct an avid collector. She informed him that he had private selling in their hotel rooms. “That’s where found a treasure. And that’s how it all began. you come across the good stuff,” Don noted. His good friend went on to donate some of her Collecting marbles is an important part of own collection to the local Doll Museum. Her Don’s life. It was something he and his wife marbles are cased in their own room at the mureceived pleasure from. It took them all over the seum with a net worth of half a million dollars. world and gave them the opportunity to meet lifeDon has kept thorough records of every marble long friends. Don would never have guessed the and every penny spent on them. He has invested about $3,000, but has a collection worth more than impact marbles would have on his life. n $30,000. “You buy a marble for $4 and sell it for $100,” Don stated. You’re probably wondering how someone keeps track of over 10,000 marbles. He has around 100 boxes keeping his prized marbles safe. He uses gun cases, hand-made wooden boxes or plastic holders for his collection. And what a jaw-dropping collection it is! Don has a wide assortment of marbles with interesting names like the superman, Indian blanket, cork screws, popeye, oxblood, cats eye and the list goes on and on. Don, along with 3,000 other members, belongs to the International Association of Marble Collectors. One of the benefits
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Shawnee Mission Geriatric Center at Lakeview Village Welcomes New Physician The Shawnee Mission Geriatric Center at Lakeview Village welcomes its newest physician, Lynda Brumley, MD. Brumley joined the Geriatric Center on June 20th and is serving patients both in the clinic and throughout Lakeview Village. She earned her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she completed an Internal Medicine residency. Brumley also completed a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. Brumley joins Gregory O’Donnell, MD, CMD; Denise Zwahlen, MD; and Carol Buller, DNP, ARNP. For more information about the Shawnee Mission Geriatric Center, located in Eastside Terrace, please call 913-632-9890. n
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Green Facts of the Month: *The 36 billion aluminum cans that went to the land fill last year had a scrap value of more than $600 million. (Someday we’ll be mining our landfills for the resources we’ve buried.) *Did you know that you are likely to get more mercury exposure from one serving of tuna than from a broken CFL bulb? New Recycling Opportunity – Home Depot is now collecting the CFL (compact florescent light) bulbs that contain mercury. Place them in a plastic bag and deposit them into one of the bright orange collection units in any Home Depot store.
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Glass Recycling Pickup: The glass recycling collection bins will be available July 29, 30 & 31. The glass is picked up by 8:00a.m. the first Monday of every month. Please remember to rinse your glass containers and take off all caps and lids before putting them in the bin. Thank you.
Shellie Sullivan, Community Life Manager (913)744-2410 | ssullivan@lakeviewvillage.org Pantry The Pantry still needs a few more people to train for cashiering so that we can keep it open during the advertised times. Training will now be provided by Tim Sullivan. It’s a great way to meet residents and staff! Call Shellie if you are interested. Library We are looking for temporary desk help on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesday of the month from 1:002:30pm. Complete training is provided. Call Shellie if you are interested. Jan Pearson, Director of Health Services (913) 744-2475 jpearson@lakeviewvillage.org
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RESIDENT Jodie Johnson By Maggie Weed Jodie Johnson has finally settled down at Lakeview… after criss-crossing the U.S. as the wife of an Episcopal Bishop and mother of 3. Jodie was the first villa resident on Cottonwood in 2008, and she painted her kitchen red because “it is warm, happy and vibrant.” She grew up in Wichita, where she married David, a Strategic Air Command pilot, and they moved to Arkansas. He later attended Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia after which they returned to Arkansas where David served as vicar of a newly organized church, then Episcopal chaplain at the University of Arkansas. Those 11 years were followed by a move to Columbia, Missouri where David was rector and Jodie worked on her Master’s Degree in Education and taught in the Child Study Department at Stephen’s College. From there the family went to Sarasota, Florida where David oversaw the building of a new church and Jodie taught Kindergarten through 3rd grade. After 9 years, they were called to the Boston area where he was Bishop of the Massachusetts Episcopal Church from 1985-1994.. What an exciting, demanding experience. The reason for their return to the Midwest was the proximity of their 3 children: 1 in St. Louis and 2 in the Kansas City area. David passed away in 1995. They lived in Leawood and Jodie became active at St. Michaels Episcopal Church and with her Delta Gamma Alum Association. She also earned her realestate license. Just like her red kitchen, Jodie is warm and happy and involved…she grabs opportunities and is always gearing up to get more involved.
EMPLOYEE Steffany Brosa By Lauren Nelson Steffany Brosa has been the Community Health Administrator for Lakeview since 2008. She provides oversight of Home Health, Village Care and serves as the social worker for Independent Living residents. Before Lakeview, Steffany worked at a retirement community in Lawrence as the Director of Social Services for 7 years. What she enjoys most about working at Lakeview is that, “Every day is different, and I’m never bored…the people are great too…the staff, residents and families”. Steffany attended college in Topeka at Washburn University for both her undergrad and graduate school, obtaining Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Social Work. Steffany and her high school sweetheart, Mark, have been married for 12 years but have been together for 20 years. They have 2 daughters, Madison (5) and Makenzie (9). The clan spends their summer splashing around at the pool. Steffany enjoys playing with the kids, going to their activities and just recently took up running. She is also involved in the community, serving on the Board for her daughters’ preschool for the past 9 years and currently volunteers with the Johnson County DA’s office on a program that focuses on financial exploitation of seniors. She also supports Family Promise (a non-profit, interfaith hospitality network providing temporary assistance, hospitality and case management for families with children experiencing homelessness) by volunteering/housing through her church. Last but not least, she volunteers through church supporting LINK (Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen). Steffany is constantly on the go so, if you can catch up with her, please stop by and say hi. Getting to Know Steffany: • What chores do you absolutely hate doing? Pulling Weeds • What is your least favorite body part? Elbows-they’re just not pretty • What sound do you love? A baby or kid’s giggle
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